Timothy Warner

Cory Williams

Scott Brewster is a certified knowledge manager through the Knowledge Management Institute and a SharePoint solutions architect who focuses primarily on no-code solutions, information architecture, and permission architecture. He speaks to these topics at various SharePoint conferences on the east coast from New York City down to Atlanta. He also shares his knowledge to all of the local SharePoint and Office 365 user groups in the Baltimore and DC area. Highly valued, SharePoint analysts, administrators, and developers in other agencies call into the SharePoint Community of Interest meetings he hosts with his client.

Owners, Members, and Visitors are just an example of how NOT to manage the permissions for your sites. Scott will walk you through planning permissions for your sites so that people no longer ask for permission because they'll already have what they need. He'll also give you a lot of handy tips on managing your groups so that this is not the management burden you may currently be feeling.

Adam is a Sr. Architect and Trainer at JourneyTEAM in Salt Lake City, UT. His specialties include infrastructure design and deployment, content management, search solutions, and training. Adam has been in IT for over 24 years and has been working primarily in SharePoint for the past 12 years providing consulting, codeless development, and training services for a large number of clients.

Bill Crider was SharePoint when SharePoint wasn’t cool. Cutting his teeth on the 2001 version, and once performing a 2 version “upgrade” from digital dashboard to Portal Server 2003, complete with Kerberos authentication. Bill has been working with SharePoint for the past 10 years. Over that time, he has taken on developer, admin, power user and architect roles. Incredibly uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person, he will nevertheless include a few career highlights to entice you to his session. He is the author of the Wrox 24 hour SharePoint 2010 administration trainer. He is an on again, off again blogger with dozens of twitter followers who hang on every word of his monthly tweet. From large scale farm installations and upgrades to drafting NFL players to Airheads candy, Bill has enjoyed a wide ranging SharePoint career. When not SharePointing he enjoys various sports, games, playing the violin and all things Russian. Okay, ending on a serious note. His mission: to remove the clutter faced by information workers the world over and let them focus on the creative aspects of their work.

Holographic mixed reality via the Microsoft HoloLens has the potential to transform the way we interact with technology. Everyone has seen this concept popularized in various movies where the user can interact with a very sophisticated display using an array of natural gestures, voice commands and 3D holographic interfaces. Combining this interface with SharePoint and Office 365’s collaboration and content management capabilities open up some interesting possibilities for the way we access and process information in a virtual reality world. In this demonstration, we will be exploring proof of concepts for interacting with information, the physical environment, and each other using a natural, 3 dimensional, holographic interface. Participants will be able to view the interface via projector, listen to discussion around the technology and implementation from a developer’s point of view and will be able to physically try the HoloLens interface demo.

Stacy Deere-Strole is the Owner of Focal Point Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati, OH based company that provides SharePoint Solutions for the Enterprise in the mid-to-large market. Previously, Stacy led a rapidly growing SharePoint practice where she engaged in a wide range of consulting projects across various industries. With nearly 18 years of experience in the IT Industry, Stacy has mainly focused on Collaboration Solutions such as IBM’s Lotus Notes\Domino and Microsoft’s Messaging and Collaboration Solutions including deployments and SharePoint upgrades.

Within the SharePoint community, Stacy is a SharePoint MVP and is actively sharing her real world expertise through authoring in the blog http://www.spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co, http://www.sharepointeurope.com/blog, http://infogovcon.com/ and speaking at various SharePoint Saturday's, Collab365, ITUnity, SPTechCon, SharePoint Fest, SharePoint Engage, and User Group events. She also co-authored two books called SharePoint 2013 and 2010 Using Managed Metadata.

The determination of success vs failure for all projects is whether or not what you have implemented is being utilized by the users. Better well known as User Adoption!! However, many wonder what can I do to make sure I’m giving the users what they want, what they didn’t know they needed but will make their job easier and something I like to call the “Plus A Little” and\or the WOW Factor! Quick wins are identified as things that are quick to do, take very little time to implement (low cost), and have a HUGE impact within the organization. In this session we are going to explore & build out different features within your SharePoint (O365 & OnPrem) environment that will make your SharePoint implementation the Rock Star of all projects ever implemented.• Promoted Links• Corporate Directory• Global Navigation• Collaboration• Search• Automation• Social• Dashboards

Stephanie is a partner and consultant at PAITgroup, with a focus on helping organizations leverage their investment in SharePoint to create and maximize ROI. As a Microsoft MVP, she has been setting a strategic path from discovery to successful implementations using an innovative approach and consistent methodology. Stephanie is an active blogger and event speaker with over 7 years of experience in SharePoint projects from basic deployments to information architecture, content management, and business process automation. You can follow Stephanie at @stephkdonahue on Twitter or read her blog at http://stephkdonahue.com

Come to this session to learn how to leverage PowerApps and Flow in the real world to do real business processes. Get beyond the twitter demos and hello world apps and create something you can use right away in your organization! We will talk about vacation request forms in PowerApps, email-enabled libraries in SharePoint Online using Flow, and the future of business process automation in SharePoint Online.

BI and Analytics Evangelist with over 25 years practical experience. Currently working at Microsoft as an advocate for Microsoft Data Platform, Big Data, Advanced Analytics, IoT and Business Intelligence. He spends his spare time enjoying with his family and doing cool things with Power BI.

With SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online you now have even more ways to work with data. Power BI is self-service analytics tool that brings information to light and collaborate with others. SQL Server Reporting Services has been updated to support new interactions with data as well. Learn how to bring both of these tools into your SharePoint scenarios and hear best practices and trends.

Power BI is one of the fastest growing self-service data analysis tools on the market. Everyone from traditional developers to new business users are embracing the new way to dive into meaningful results quickly. Come learn about what Power BI can do for you and your organization by leveraging the Power BI service (.com), Power BI Desktop and related mobile capabilities. Become the data champion of your organization and learn Power BI today!

Rob Foster (MCT, MVP)

Senior Manager/Lead Strategist | Deloitte

Rob Foster is a Senior Manager and Lead Strategist for collaboration technologies at Deloitte. He is responsible for delivering collaboration solutions for Deloitte's 400,000 users to drive continuing improvements to how efficient and effective people at Deloitte collaborate.

Microsoft Teams changes the way that people collaborate by providing a more intuitive, conversational collaboration experience that has been built on top of Office 365. In this session, you will learn what Microsoft Teams can do for your organization and key best practices for getting the most out of this platform by:

1) learning about the user experience (web, desktop, and mobile capabilities)2) how to onboard a new team and start being productive3) start conversations with your team in channels4) share documents with your team4) conduct impromptu meetings and video conferences5) managing your team calendar6) discussing how it compares to other tools in the market (i.e. Slack, Cisco Spark, HipChat, etc.)

Daniel is a Microsoft MVP and has been building technology solutions for more than 14 years. As Practice Leader for InfoWorks, a total business solutions provider, he has helped organizations large and small solve complex challenges using every version of SharePoint throughout his career. Daniel is passionate about building technical community with his leadership roles in local user groups, SharePoint Saturday Nashville, and co-hosting the "RE:Office 365 The Week That Was" show. Follow him on https://DanielGlenn.com and @DanielGlenn on Twitter.

With SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online you now have even more ways to work with data. Power BI is self-service analytics tool that brings information to light and collaborate with others. SQL Server Reporting Services has been updated to support new interactions with data as well. Learn how to bring both of these tools into your SharePoint scenarios and hear best practices and trends.

Co-Presenter(s)

Jim Bob Howard is first a husband and father. For fun, he gets to work and play with SharePoint. Jim Bob has invested almost 25 years in software development and website management for companies of all sizes. For the last 8+ years, he has applied his expertise to SharePoint UX/UI Development and Architecture, and in his current role as SharePoint Practice Director for JourneyTEAM in Nashville, TN. Jim Bob is heavily involved in the SharePoint community globally, having organized SharePoint Saturdays in Austin, TX, and Nairobi, Kenya; and spoken on SharePoint at more than 20 events.

Sometimes it's the little things that make a big impact. In this information-packed session, Jim Bob Howard will walk you through:• Adding quick KPIs to your list views so that it becomes information, not just data• Automating 80% of your regular work so you can focus on the 20% that really needs your expertise• Using web services to connect to disparate systems from an SPD workflow• Customizing your workflow emails with HTML to make your calls to action more accessible• Making small tweaks to your workflows to make debugging a snap

Eric Hudson (MCPD, MCTS, MCSE) is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft where he helps organizations to optimize business performance using a variety of technologies. He has over 13 years of experience working with all versions of SharePoint, primarily as an architect/developer, but also as a speaker, consultant, and implementation strategist. Eric is formerly the SharePoint Enterprise Architect for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Both SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 come with incredible search results display versatility. With a little imagination and some basic coding skills you can easily modify how results are displayed. Learn how to shape result types to come up with new ways for returning information. Also, learn about display templates and how a basic understanding of JavaScript provides unlimited flexibility for displaying information. Your users will benefit from having information immediately available in the search results page instead of having to open that page or document for the core information.

Approximately 8 years of experience in SharePoint Administration, Infrastructure, Solution Architecture. Currently working as a Sr. SharePoint Consultant at Microsoft. Prior to that, worked as a SharePoint Architect with a SharePoint consulting company out of St. Louis called Covenant Technology Partners. Prior to that, worked at Washington University in St. Louis as an Application Design Manager/SharePoint Administrator/Architect.

There's a lot of information on various components in Search and best practices around them, but how do you apply that to your organization? This session covers the kind of information you need to collect from your current environment, and then apply these concepts to architect the search solution that fits your needs. Building it out is the easy part! :-)

Mike Maadarani is an Office 365 MVP, and a SharePoint Architect who has been providing strategic SharePoint solutions for the past 15 years. With over 21 years of IT industry experience, Mike spent the last few years managing and delivering SharePoint solutions to a wide range of mid to large scale projects. He is an evangelist and visionary where he can and provide the business and technical leadership required for delivering successful global SharePoint projects.

Mike is a Search and ECM expert and has deployed large SharePoint ECM and Collaboration implementations in North America.​

Search in SharePoint 2016 has improved to offer hybrid topology.In this session, we will review what's new in SharePoint 2016 Search, and how does a hybrid search work. Together, we will create a Hybrid Search Environment and explain some tips to avoid any implementation headaches.

Antonio Maio is an information security architect with over 25 years of experience in cyber security practices and systems, product management, software development and leadership. Antonio is currently a Senior Manager and Senior SharePoint Architect with Protiviti. He has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for 6 consecutive years, from 2012 to 2017, specializing in Microsoft SharePoint Server, Office 365 and Office Services. His background includes implementing cryptography and PKI systems, information security technologies, and both information governance and cybersecurity best practices. His experience with Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 extends over the last 10 years. When he’s not helping enterprise, military or government organizations solve security challenges, you can catch him speaking at conferences or contributing to the community through his blog: www.trustsharepoint.com.

There is no denying that Office 365 can make us highly productive, sharing and collaborating with coworkers, partners and clients. But, does it take care of our security and compliance issues? Is our data secure in Office 365? Yes, and no. The security of our information in Office 365 is a shared responsibility between Microsoft (the cloud provider) and us (the customers). Office 365 is a secure platform, but to truly secure our data we must make effective use of the security capabilities and features provided within the platform. We must also have strong information governance structures in place to control how information is shared and accessed through the platform. This session will provide a detailed review of the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center, including how to use the built in capabilities for alerts, data loss prevention policies, activity audit logs, advanced security management and customer lockbox. We'll also review recommended information governance and security practices based on customer experiences to help you effectively secure your information in Office 365 and uphold your end of the shared responsibility.

Mr. Negri joined Intlock in March 2010 and since then has been heading the company’s activities in North America and Latin America. Prior to joining Intlock, Mr. Negri was part of an elite academic program at the Israeli Ministry of Defense. As part of this program Mr Negri studied international economics, marketing, and logistics (B.Sc). Following his studies, Mr Negri served in several Ministry of Defense positions as Director of planning and logistics. Mr. Negri brings with him vast experience of international macroeconomics, development of new markets, management know-how, team leadership, and drive.

The modern enterprise platform is changing, with a growing demand for understanding how SharePoint/Office 365 can be constantly improved to increase user adoption rates, boost productivity, enhance usability and more. By leveraging reporting for SharePoint/Office 365, you can identify concretely how the portal is being used with business goals and optimization at heart.

FIND OUT:• Why Advanced Analytics will carry your organization farther than Out-of-the-box • User adoption rate statistics to maximize training programs and identify active users• Portal site and design that benefits end users • Content and areas of your portal in need of improvement and change• What your users searching for and which content are they not able to find

In this session, we’ll share the key metrics you’ll need to achieve these goals. Armed with this intelligent data, you’ll be able to start seeing your intranet in full color to get a solid understanding of how to transform metrics into actions. You’ll then be able to increase means of portal optimization with insights on adoption, collaboration and productivity methods that are personalized and in tune with your needs.

A SharePoint consultant, author, and frequent speaker at community and industry conference events. A 5x Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP (2010-2014) and actively involved both online and throughout the southeast United States. I have been living in the Raleigh-Durham area since 1998 and have held a number of development and consulting positions servicing clients from a range of industries. I have a strong background in both technology and process having held both strategic and tactical roles. I strive to innovate while bringing incremental change that provides a quick return on investment.

With all of the information stored in modern information systems it can be extremely difficult to locate valuable content. In this session we will introduce the Delve feature within Office 365 and show what it offers and how it can help you quickly discover, take action, or collaborate on relevant content within your organization. This often overlooked feature can help people overcome some of the biggest challenges working in SharePoint environments today.

Mark is Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at PAIT Group and an Office Servers and Services MVP with more than 20 years of experience designing and developing software solutions. Mark has been doing Client Side Development in SharePoint since 2009 as is considered one of the pioneers of Client Side Development in SharePoint. As a globally recognized SharePoint geek, Mark is an active blogger, presenter, author (and bacon aficionado) who is eager to lend his real-world knowledge of SharePoint to all who need it.

Okay, we get it. You’re not a developer, but there are so many cool things you can do with jQuery and JavaScript in SharePoint! Why should you or your organization be left out?Maybe you found that script on that blog that you copy and pasted and just can’t get to work. It looks so easy though.Why should developers have all the fun?

In this session, learn how you, a non-developer can take advantage of some of the awesomeness that is client side scripting in SharePoint. You’ll learn:

- How to use some plug and play scripts on the internet to create tabbed web parts, customize SharePoint forms and more- Do’s and don’ts that will help you figure out why that script isn’t working on your site- What's possible and open the doors to creating a better user experience in SharePoint, whether you are On-Premises or in the cloud

A proven, results-oriented technology and support professional with more than 20 years of IT experience ranging from system administration, to application development, to support. Possess a wide range of experience in developing applications, overseeing complex systems, and providing consultation to management on the use of technology to improve processes.

In this session we will walk through building several applications with Microsoft Power Apps and include flow actions to integration external systems with the applications. This will be a demo heavy session so come prepared to put Microsoft's new technology to work.

The SharePoint List Datasheet View is a powerful tool for making mass edits on multiple list items, it's like an in-browser spreadsheet for lists. What would be really nice is to "user-proof" the Datasheet View, perhaps disable the "add column" feature, and make certain columns read-only, or hide certain columns on the fly, or automatically apply filters, or validation… You can! The Datasheet View uses the SP.jsGrid library which is accessbible through javascript. SP.jsGrid and it's features are poorly documented (thanks MicroSoft), so I've scoured the inter-webs to discover all the tantric mysteries of taking programatic control over the Datasheet View and bending it to do my will. This discussion is targeted for developers who are comfortable with javascript, but you don’t have to be an expert, we'll work through examples starting with the basics.

Jay Simcox (MCT, MCSE: Productivity, MCSA O365, MS: Azure Development) is a long time IT Professional, author, speaker and educator with 15 years of Information Technology related experience. For much of the past 13 years his main focus has been in the SharePoint space.

Jay is currently a Senior Consultant with Summit 7 Systems as well as an Instructor for Mindsharp where his background in network and systems administration, SharePoint architecture, administration, end user support and training are utilized by Summit 7 and Mindsharp customers around the world seeking to make better use of the tools they are provided.

Instead of lots of PowerPoints, we’ll use a few slides for understanding the planning points, and then we’ll walk through designing and installing SharePoint 2016 live! We’ll review the new installation options and then install common features in a new farm. You’ll leave this workshop with a solid understanding of what you need to know to install and configure SharePoint 2016. We’ll take the guesswork out of your 2016 technical implementation. There’s a LOT of new features coming in SP 2016 - with new ones being announced all the time. You’ll leave this session with confidence you can go back and begin your planning and testing. Some of the major points that will be covered:

Mike is currently a Senior Instructor at MAX Technical Training in Cincinnati Ohio. He has worn many IT hats over the last thirty years as a business owner, developer, tech writer, trainer, DBA and consultant. He is a SharePoint MVP for 2010 - 2017 and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). He specializes in SharePoint, PowerShell and .NET development. Mike is a member of the Cincinnati SharePoint User Group leadership team and when time permits, speaks at SharePoint user groups, SharePoint Saturday events and other SharePoint events. Mike has written over 160 training and technical manuals, and three SharePoint books.

Audience: Developers, Power Users (who know some JavaScript), Administrators (who know some PowerShell)Each version of SharePoint has expanded the collection of web services to let the developer with any kind of tools, .Net, Java, etc., to access and update SharePoint content. While SharePoint 2010 included a limited set of RESTful web services, SharePoint 2013 and 2016 gives us access to almost everything in SharePoint using REST. Now professional developers using .Net, Java and other tools, and also “power users” using JavaScript in web parts and master pages, can get, create and update SharePoint content.

- What is REST? - How to use REST with SharePoint - What’s available via REST - How to “play with REST” from the browser’s developer tools - How to select and filter data - Search SharePoint via REST! - Using Excel Services via REST - Adding and Deleting content via REST - Calling REST from JavaScript, from PowerShell and from C#

When you first looked at 2013 workflows you probably wondered why they took away so many of the 2010 Actions. In exchange they gave you access to REST web service calls, but did not tell you too much about them. While a little more difficult to setup, REST calls open up far more of SharePoint than you could have ever touched with 2010 Actions. In this session we will look at REST calls to create items, lists, and sites, perform security administration, get lists of lists and lists of sites, and much more. Attend this session and I’ll give you a REST testing tool I’ve created that you can add to a SharePoint page and explore REST outside of a workflow.

Liz is a Microsoft Office Servers and Services MVP and is involved with multiple areas of the business as a consultant for SharePoint and Office 365. Her work includes a variety of aspects from developing strategies to aid in collaboration, identifying best practices for SharePoint and Office 365 to run efficiently and working with multiple teams on identifying needs and areas of improvement. Liz loves a challenge, so everything from a business problem to troubleshooting an error in a system is just another learning opportunity. As a trainer and international speaker, she hopes to inspire others to learn something they can apply to their own work immediately. When she is not working in SharePoint or traveling, you may find her in a variety of activities as diverse as she is: playing music, riding motorcycles, training her dog and even a craft or two.

Have you ever had that dreaded moment when you learn something new and wish you would have learned it just a week before? Let’s face it, SharePoint is big! It can be daunting at first and there’s lot of places to make mistakes.

In this session, we will hit some of the hottest tips, tricks, gotchas and ah ha’s for getting started with SharePoint. There will be favorite things from an end user perspective such as promoted links and setting up lists and libraries to key things for your site owners like permissions. From what browsers work best to where to find content types this fast paced session will give you a great start on your journey into SharePoint. You will succeed, yes indeed!

Are you tired of boring meetings? Have you tried to run meetings where more people are checking phones and computers than sticking to the agenda? Stop the madness and break out the games. Yes, that's right, get more done with higher collaboration in less time by using innovation games. This session is highly interactive and tons of fun. Come and learn some of the top innovation games and how to use them on requirements, designs or implementations. You will be ready for your next meeting just by using a few of these simple games and your users will want to attend your next meeting.

I've worked in IT since 1997 and specialize in a wide variety of Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, cross-platform PowerShell, and Azure. I'm a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management, and you can reach me via Twitter at @TechTrainerTim.

We don't want our users to be burdened with remembering multiple credential sets. Ideally, we'd like our users to log into Office 365 using their on-premises network identity. This is eminently possible! In this session we'll learn how to plan, configure, and troubleshoot single sign-on (SSO) options for Office 365.

Cory is the Business Productivity Practice Manager working with various Microsoft Collaboration Technologies. He has been working with SharePoint since 2004 and is now splitting time between SharePoint, Office 365, and Yammer. He is also a SharePoint MCSE, Office 365 MCSA and Yammer guru. Collaboration is his thing.

SharePoint Online has been undergoing a lot of change over the last year. Not only for the user experience but also as a supporting component for a lot of other Office 365 services. It either helps support or integrates with at least ten other services. That can affect your storage, naming conventions, needing to work with other supporting teams, and various other aspects of your environment. This session will cover at a high level, or it would take numerous days, each of those services and things to consider as an administrator and things to understand as a user interacting with these services.